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Re: Mutt in a script

Michael Kjorling — 2008-12-03T17:23:48

On 3 Dec 2008 13:08 +1100, by mutt< at >secs.net.au (Peter): Usually when a program works in one environment (command line) but fails in another (script, cron, etc.), the culprit is some difference in the environment settings, and most often, $PATH. Make sure that when the script is executed, the environment variables are all set to what you expect. ("env" is your friend here.) You can also save mutt's exit status immediately after the execution attempt; it is in $? in sh-like shells (sh, bash, and maybe others as well).

Re: Mutt in a script

Chris Green — 2008-12-03T12:12:55

I had a similar problem running mutt in a shell script via cron. IIRC it was because the system didn't know what to do with stdout and stderr - so try adding "> /dev/null 2>&1" to the end of the mutt line and see if that helps. Chris _________________________________________________________________ Explore the seven wonders of the world http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=7+wonders+world&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE

Re: Header caching not working

Kyle Wheeler — 2008-12-03T16:02:13

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, December 3 at 01:19 PM, quoth Szymek: Hmm, okay, so... it's got it... Nah, it should work with other things (e.g. Maildir and POP3). Well, I'm stumped. Anyone else have an idea? ~Kyle - -- I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iEYEARECAAYFAkk2rYAACgkQBkIOoMqOI16MzwCgz433jDTPnYHZ3AvsFNtVBUK9 IQcAnRg0NOU1CvD0KQaM88Y6wzz1NMQl =i8sv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Re: Header caching not working

Szymek — 2008-12-03T12:19:44

Hi I just have pasted the output of mutt -v in wrong way, here it is again: -DOMAIN -DEBUG -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK -USE_INODESORT -USE_POP -USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL -USE_GNUTLS -USE_SASL -USE_SASL2 +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM -CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP -CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME -CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGIN FO_YESEXPR +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS -HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_GETSID -HAVE_GETADDRINFO +USE_HCACHE ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell" SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" MAILPATH="/var/mail" PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt" SYSCONFDIR="/usr/etc" EXECSHELL="/bin/sh" -MIXMASTER Could it be, that I have to compile with use_imap option? BTW, I am an eng

Mutt in a script

Peter — 2008-12-03T02:08:32

Hi all. I know this is most likely a permisions problem but need some help as I am a Windows convert. I have a script /usr/bin/send_mail that fires mutt to send an email. If I run it from command line it works. I put in a line LOGGER: Sent mail which shows up in my /var/log/messages and I can see it using tail However if I run the same script from a program I am using I get the LOGGER statement in the messages file but it doesn't send email? Help would be greatly appreciated. Peter secs.net.au Licenced Electrician Speciliasing in: HVAC-BUILDING AUTOMATION-REMOTE DATA AQUISITION "Are your tools safe?" TEST AND TAG Service.

Re: Header caching not working

Kyle Wheeler — 2008-12-02T22:12:17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, December 2 at 10:42 PM, quoth Szymek: Now that is *really* weird. I think there's either something wrong with the way you compiled it, or your source is corrupt. And I say that because your mutt spit out that full thing *twice*, and it's not supposed to do that. (Notice that from -DOMAIN through to ISPELL=... is duplicated.) Are you using any patches besides the MDN patch? Try doing a `make clean` and then build mutt again. ~Kyle - -- Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud, after a while you realize the pig is enjoying it. -- Unknown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iEYEARECAAYFAkk1ssEACgkQBkIOoMqOI17gnwCg4TUbHRoflIE/1cnQkpIP6H1K 2+4An3Z/rR8ZATeSfvh78QaEhkCGSRnZ =SjZh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Re: Header caching not working

Szymek — 2008-12-02T21:42:46

That's the output of mutt -v: -DOMAIN -DEBUG -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK -USE_INODESORT -USE_POP -USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL -USE_GNUTLS -USE_SASL -USE_SASL2 +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM -CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP -CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME -CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS -HAVE_LIBIDN +HAVE_GETSID -HAVE_GETADDRINFO +USE_HCACHE ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell" -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK -USE_INODESORT -USE_POP -USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL -USE_GNUTLS -USE_SASL -USE_SASL2 +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM

Re: Header caching not working

Kyle Wheeler — 2008-12-02T17:02:42

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, December 2 at 05:57 PM, quoth Szymek: Hmm. When you run `mutt -v`, do you see +USE_HCACHE in there? ~Kyle - -- I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iEYEARECAAYFAkk1ajIACgkQBkIOoMqOI164+gCgzX2q+sakaXwlfchbgGcNRo9S af8AoO9MQDYElq4uL6CLORlAW2bwRL6R =ua8S -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Re: Header caching not working

Szymek — 2008-12-02T16:57:33

Yes, I forgot to make a test:) But there is no difference, still no files in hcache folder.

Re: Remove old signature

David Champion — 2008-12-02T16:45:16

I don't let my editor (vi, not vim) strip signatures automatically. Sometimes I want to comment on the signature in my reply. I have a vi macro for signature-stripping: "" From main.d/070.delsig: "" Remove quoted signature, up to blank line map ; :/^[ ]*> -- *$/;?^[ >][ >]*$?;.,/^[ ]*$/-1d All the sequences of whitespace above are , and the ^M is a control-M, not a caret and an M. Be sure to fix that if you copy and paste. Vim should be able to use this too -- if not, its vi compatibility is worse than I thought.

Re: Header caching not working

Kyle Wheeler — 2008-12-02T15:45:27

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, December 2 at 03:03 PM, quoth Szymek: Yup. You probably could have even tested that yourself! ;) ~Kyle -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iEYEARECAAYFAkk1WBEACgkQBkIOoMqOI14ongCeOTxXhvER1vp+xa/BO/DwsgpT n9QAoLJahTsiEafBgtFzQgB3UmmHTrY4 =lWFT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Re: Remove old signature

steve — 2008-12-02T15:16:27

Le 02-12-2008, à 15:57:06 +0100, Christian Ebert (blacktrash< at >gmx.net) a écrit : I will. Ok thanks for the hints, I'll give them a try tomorrow, end of the day for me now. ok, didn't know that. Many thanks Christian for your help. -- steve

Re: Remove old signature

Christian Ebert — 2008-12-02T14:57:06

* steve on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 at 15:33:54 +0100 Probably you need to escape some of the "\"; you'd have to try. I prefer to have this (and more) in a function MailStart in ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/mail.vim, and then simply have set editor='vim -X -c "call MailStart()"' in my muttrc -- much easier to tweak or turn off in hooks as well. Saves me to try hundreds of escape combinations in muttrc. So I am also too lazy to do it for you ;-) btw. you don't need tw=72. That's already on by default for ft=mail. c

Re: Remove old signature

steve — 2008-12-02T14:33:54

Le 02-12-2008, à 15:20:21 +0100, Christian Ebert (blacktrash< at >gmx.net) a écrit : Ok ... Ok, I fell on one of those too. The question is how do I integrate that line in .muttrc ? I tried : set editor="vim -c 'set textwidth=72' -c 'silent! g/^> \?-- $/,$ delete'" but it doesn't work, the old signature is still there. What did I do wrong ? Still a lot too complicated for me .. Thanks for your help. -- Steve

Re: Replying a mail in a mail list

Rocco Rutte — 2008-12-02T14:25:48

Hi, * Chengqi(Lars) Song wrote: lists and subscribe are for telling mutt what's a mailing list. Known lists are tagged with 'L', see $to_chars. You can post to mutt-users< at > without these because mutt supports the List-Post: header containing the proper list mailing address. Rocco

Re: Remove old signature

Christian Ebert — 2008-12-02T14:20:21

* steve on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 at 14:55:18 +0100 Yet another option ... On startup: silent! g/^> \?-- $/,$ delete or manually: nnoremap qs :/^> \?-- $/,/^-- $/-dnoh eg. in ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/mail.vim Adjust to taste. c

Header caching not working

Szymek — 2008-12-02T14:03:07

Hello I have some problems with header caching in mutt. I have set the following variable in .muttrc: set header_cache=$HOME/mail/hcache My mail is organized like that: $HOME/mail -> box1 -> box2 -> box3 -> hcache There are no files created in the hcache folder, why? Do I have to put a slash at the end of the line in .muttrc? All of my mailboxes are in maildir format, I have mutt version 1.5.8i with mdn-patch and the header-cache option passed to configure during building. What could be wrong? I didn't use a separate patch for hcache. Best regards Szymon

Remove old signature

steve — 2008-12-02T13:55:18

Hi, After having searching on the web and in the archives, I come to you for this small question. When replying ('r') mutt can add a chosen signature but cannot remove the old one, i.e the one from the sender. In the FAQ, it's written that mutt cannot strip automaticaly signatures since this should be the editor's job (vim in my case). But why so ? Any pointers on how to do that with vim ? Thanks -- Steve

Re: Replying a mail in a mail list

Cherife Li — 2008-12-02T13:48:47

RTFM, you'll find the answer and even more.

Re: Replying a mail in a mail list

Joel Esler — 2008-12-02T13:43:26

You could reply to group as well. Mash "g". Joel

Re: Replying a mail in a mail list

Christian Ebert — 2008-12-02T13:07:54

* Chengqi(Lars) Song on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 at 19:09:34 +0800 group-reply, bound to g by default iirc. Be aware that some people (like me) prefer to not get double responses. c